Whos leftie serve is the best to learn\emulate from?
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IowaGuy
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acintya
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what do you mean by that? the best serve to learn for older guys or that he has a good serve for a 50year old?
IowaGuy
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I would argue that if he can serve like that in his 50's (he's almost 60 now!), and has been serving like that for his entire life, that it's a good serve for all ages. Very smooth, good kinetic chain, accurate, powerful, etc...
Compare to Roddick's explosive serve, for example, which might be a pretty sweet service motion for someone in their 20's, but probably not for someone in their 60's...
PMChambers
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SystemicAnomaly
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Jeff Salzenstein
If an abbreviated rhythm with a platform stance suits you, I strongly suggest Jeff's serve. It is easily cleaner, simpler and bigger than Rafa's serve. Many players find the abbreviated rhythm/motion the easiest to adopt. OTOH there are some players out there who can't figure out the abbreviated rhythm and adopt a more staggered rhythm. (I am NOT a fan or the 'classic' down-together, up-together rhythm).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrU6C8eilkI&t=77s
More Salzenstein serving wisdom:
If an abbreviated rhythm with a platform stance suits you, I strongly suggest Jeff's serve. It is easily cleaner, simpler and bigger than Rafa's serve. Many players find the abbreviated rhythm/motion the easiest to adopt. OTOH there are some players out there who can't figure out the abbreviated rhythm and adopt a more staggered rhythm. (I am NOT a fan or the 'classic' down-together, up-together rhythm).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrU6C8eilkI&t=77s
More Salzenstein serving wisdom:
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PMChambers
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That's probably the best lefty to base upon because all his technique is available either as free snippets or paid training. His serving system is huge resource.
S&V-not_dead_yet
Talk Tennis Guru
The average AARP-appropriate tennis player is not going to have McEnroe's spine flexibility. Look at how much he rotates when serving out wide on the Ad court? There's no way a typical player is going to be able to do that unless he's already been doing it for years.
SystemicAnomaly
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JMac's serve motion is much too idiosyncratic. Mac developed his unusual serve style because of chronic back issues. Like a lot of other ppl, I tried Mac's novelty serving style back in the day (30+ yrs ago). It was interesting to try but too difficult to get working at a high level. I know a lot of ppl tried it but don't know anyone who stuck with it.
It didn't work me when I was young and I seriously doubt that I could pull it off now that I'm in my 60s (Connors age, a bit older than JMac).
IowaGuy
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Is there another 60-year-old tennis player who has a better serve? (lefty or righty)
IowaGuy
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Well then, we probably shouldn't be suggesting pro players serves for rec-level older players
Spine flexibility can definitely be an issue, but that's what things like yoga (or marial arts, etc) are for
Chas Tennis
G.O.A.T.
Well then, we probably shouldn't be suggesting pro players serves for rec-level older players
Is there a single example of a technique or serve level that should be suggested?
mental midget
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marcelo rios had a very simple and to my eye pleasing service motion. not much too it but looked quite efficient, check it out.
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